Hi, I've been wrestling with this problem since 8.0 was released and I haven't found a solution yet in any of the other forums (there is an extensive thread on the subject at LinuxISO.org/RedHat forum). 4 or 5 hours after logging into the box the system freezes up completely with the following symptoms: - no video updates - mouse does not function - keyboard does not function - network traffic stop - cannot SSH into the box - cannot ping the box At first I did not experience these problems with SuSE 8.0. By default SuSE 8.0 puts the kernel in a /boot/ partition formatted as ext2. I re-installed SuSE I put everything on reiserFS (forgetting that /boot/ should be on ext2) and I began to experience the same kind of freezes. So I re-installed SuSE again with everything on ext2 and everything worked. Thinking I had found the problem I re-installed RedHat 8.0 and put everything on ext2 and the freezes starting happening more frequently before (on the order of a couple of minutes rather than a couple of hours). One thing worth mentioning--one time right before a SuSE lock up I saw in the xconsole window a message about kernel: /dev/hdb: lost interrupt or something along those lines. I checked the /proc/irq and everything seems to be in order. I had thought the problem was running the kernel from a journaling filesystem, but this apparently is not the case, since I have reproduced the problem on an ext2 installation. I ran SuSE's memory test...17 hours and no failures. I reformatted my drive with ext2 and did bad block checking...no bad blocks. The computer is new and the RAM My computer is a Gateway 500S that's about 6 months old. It has an Intel 845PT chipset with the CPU/LAN configuration with integrated ADI 1885 audio chip (currently disabled) and Intel 8256ET NIC. I have an after-market ATI Radeo 64MB DDR (retail box) video card and an after-market OEM SoundBlaster Audigy MP3+. The drive I am trying to install on is a 80GB Maxtor 7200 RPM. I've tried partitioning in several different configurations but nothing seems to help. Right now I'm running SuSE with the kernel on /boot/ (ext2) and / on ReiserFS and it's working fine. In the LinuxISO.org forum I found 2 or 3 other people with the same problem. Has anyone else seen anything like this? Any suggestions for further troubleshooting? -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
